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It seems like hair product companies just looooovvvvveee to change their hair products. Whether they’re re-packaging their products in fun, new, colorful bottles or updating and improving their formulas, it seems that change is not a four letter word in the hair care business.

But what does that mean for consumers? Usually it means frustration.

After years of using a particular product, you discover one day that it now looks completely different! The round, white bottle with green trim you have loved for years is now a pink, square bottle. Agh! Things get even more complicated when they decided to change the name of their product! Is it nourishing shampoo or gentle shampoo? Are the ingredients the same or different?

All of this change causes us to ask the question: Why?

Why are they changing their packaging and their names and their ingredients?

Well, the first two are easily explained: sales. Hair product companies are always Read more »

So if you read my last blog, you’ll know that I switched to a Sulfate Free Shampoo & Conditioner. It was the Abba Pure Moisture Shampoo and Abba Pure Moisture Conditioner. I picked this particular shampoo because it was affordable (both were about $12 a bottle) and because my hair is always SUPER dry…so Moisture was definitely the way to go.

Abba’s other options are:
Color Protect – obviously for colored/dyed hair, which I don’t have
Volume – for adding volume to thin/fine hair, which I don’t have
Daily – a more gentle formula for daily washers who are worried about damage from frequent shampooing
Gentle – for sensitive scalps, again…not me

So I only based my choice on what I needed, which IS what you are supposed to do when picking a shampoo. However, I was in such a rush when picking it up that Read more »

Ok, so if you haven’t heard by now, Sulfate-Free Shampoos are all the rage. Companies everywhere are switching to Sulfate-Free formulas. Why? BECAUSE SULFATES ARE EVIL!!!….or…are they?

Sulfates are the main active cleaning agent found in your shampoo. They are the reason your shampoo foams/bubbles/lathers, which makes you think and feel that your shampoo is working. First of all, you don’t actually need a super-lathering shampoo in order to get your hair clean. The lather really is just a show your shampoo is putting on for you to reassure you that it’s doing its job. If you’re thinking of switching to sulfate-free shampoo you can say bye-bye to all that soapy lather.

So why does everyone hate Sulfates all of a sudden? What did they do? Well…they also appear in ENGINE DEGREASER. EW!…right? I mean that sounds gross…I don’t want to pour engine degreaser all over me.

Everyone seems to think that sulfates are going to cause us harm, mainly because of the other types of products they are used in. The fact is that Read more »